Ure mummified cat's head

[2] In February 1890, several tons of mummified cats of varying conditions arrived at Liverpool Docks and were auctioned for processing into fertilizer (and fuel).

A FORTUNATE CAT-ASTROPHE.—In the category of consignments surely that of twenty thousand mummified cats, recently arrived at Liverpool from Egypt, is the queerest.

It impresses the imagination and appeals to the feelings to consider that, after being buried decently for four thousand years, they have been exhumed to furnish manure for a distant land.

They were discovered in a cats' cemetery—a famous catacomb in its day, about a hundred miles from Cairo—somewhere about the first cataract, isn't it?

The object has also played a prominent role in previous marketing for the museum and is one of the best-known items of the collection.